Who wants to go to the rodeo?
No, that's not an expression. The charity guy on the phone just sounded so sad. Pathetically sad. And it was only $40 for tickets for five people to the rodeo in SF in October on some random Wednesday at 7:30. I don't care too much about the San Mateo County police's after-school programs for kids but the guy sounded so sad. And it should count as a charitable contribution, I think (I'll have to check with my dad). And it was only $40. And it's a rodeo, which I think my sister might want to go to. And the guy sounded so sad.
Sigh. I'm going to be on those call lists forever now. I am such a sucker.
In other news, I discovered Overstock.com via Allison, and now bought two pairs of earrings! I know I know, I shouldn't go crazy. One pair of cubic zirconia square studs to replace my old Claire's cheapy ones that are peeling and uncomfortable, and one pair of pink round studs that inexplicably appealed to me. I'm not a pink person, even though I got a pink hoody a while ago and decided I should wear more pink. Because it looked good, and I should be more girly. Speaking of which, last week I discovered what "topcoat" was for, and it makes a difference! Turns out it's not interchangeable with clear nail polish. At least not the Wet and Wild clear nail polish I have.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
I've been back from Oceanside for two weeks now. Work has been busy because I have to go back to working multiple projects rather than just the one big one, but there have been fewer hours. Eight hour days? Weekends? Wow, this is what a normal life feels like? No wonder people like it!
While I was in Oceanside and didn't have any real daylight hours for extracurricular activities or my usual hobbies to occupy myself I got used to exercising every day. And I've almost kept it up! Since it's spring and the sun's out so much longer that helps with the "I just want to be gone" feeling I get at the end of the day that prevents me from going to the work gym. I've also been jogging around the neighborhood which I can do now because the Egoscue book the orthopedist recommended fixed me so I won't injure my knee every time I try to run.
And today I noticed a strange effect from all this exercise. I was trying on cardigans at Target (found one, by the way, it's super cute), turned to the side, and noticed my butt isn't where it used to be. It moved. Vertically. And maybe outward. I measured myself after I came back, my hip measurement is the same as always (it correlates with my weight, I have the graph to prove it). It just...rearranged. How weird!
So about the cardigan, I've shunned cardigans previously because they tend to make my upper arms look like sausages but I went there on the recommendation of my sister and found one! Not the ones she actually told me about but a similar one. And it looks good! And of course it was the only one in the entire freaking store and isn't on the website so I can't get it in every single color like I want to. Frustrating!
Tomorrow my friend Yael from work is coming over to cook dinner together. She's "kosher-itarian" so I was trying to find vegetarian recipes when she happened to mention she does eat fish. I picked out a baked tilapia recipe we'll try. We'll see if tilapia can be added to my short acceptable fish list of 1. salmon 2. tuna fillets in envelopes 3. swordfish at the fancy smancy restaurant in Lafayette 4. fish of fish and chips and 5. fish of fish sticks.
And in other news I got a dishwasher! The hotel I stayed at in Oceanside had a dishwasher and I enjoyed it. Then coming back, and having to do dishes upon dishes just frustrated me. So I started looking around for how much portable dishwashers were both new and on Craigslist. Nicer ones on Craigslist were still $300-$400, and most were black. My whole kitchen is white so that would look horrible. But then Saturday someone put up a new posting for a white dishwasher only $120. I called and it hadn't been sold yet so I said I wanted it. It ended up working out perfectly. It was a married couple who had only used it for a year, then moved to a place that had a built-in so this dishwasher took up space in the garage for five years. The wife seemed to really want it gone - they delivered it to my apartment to get rid of it! I had to go to the hardware store to put a special attachment on my faucet in place of the aerator and then I could hook it up fine. I ran it once empty to clean it, then accumulated two days of dishes and ran it last night. It's so fantastic! A machine washed my dishes for me. A machine washed my dishes FOR me. And it cleaned them better than I do! Really awesome.
While I was in Oceanside and didn't have any real daylight hours for extracurricular activities or my usual hobbies to occupy myself I got used to exercising every day. And I've almost kept it up! Since it's spring and the sun's out so much longer that helps with the "I just want to be gone" feeling I get at the end of the day that prevents me from going to the work gym. I've also been jogging around the neighborhood which I can do now because the Egoscue book the orthopedist recommended fixed me so I won't injure my knee every time I try to run.
And today I noticed a strange effect from all this exercise. I was trying on cardigans at Target (found one, by the way, it's super cute), turned to the side, and noticed my butt isn't where it used to be. It moved. Vertically. And maybe outward. I measured myself after I came back, my hip measurement is the same as always (it correlates with my weight, I have the graph to prove it). It just...rearranged. How weird!
So about the cardigan, I've shunned cardigans previously because they tend to make my upper arms look like sausages but I went there on the recommendation of my sister and found one! Not the ones she actually told me about but a similar one. And it looks good! And of course it was the only one in the entire freaking store and isn't on the website so I can't get it in every single color like I want to. Frustrating!
Tomorrow my friend Yael from work is coming over to cook dinner together. She's "kosher-itarian" so I was trying to find vegetarian recipes when she happened to mention she does eat fish. I picked out a baked tilapia recipe we'll try. We'll see if tilapia can be added to my short acceptable fish list of 1. salmon 2. tuna fillets in envelopes 3. swordfish at the fancy smancy restaurant in Lafayette 4. fish of fish and chips and 5. fish of fish sticks.
And in other news I got a dishwasher! The hotel I stayed at in Oceanside had a dishwasher and I enjoyed it. Then coming back, and having to do dishes upon dishes just frustrated me. So I started looking around for how much portable dishwashers were both new and on Craigslist. Nicer ones on Craigslist were still $300-$400, and most were black. My whole kitchen is white so that would look horrible. But then Saturday someone put up a new posting for a white dishwasher only $120. I called and it hadn't been sold yet so I said I wanted it. It ended up working out perfectly. It was a married couple who had only used it for a year, then moved to a place that had a built-in so this dishwasher took up space in the garage for five years. The wife seemed to really want it gone - they delivered it to my apartment to get rid of it! I had to go to the hardware store to put a special attachment on my faucet in place of the aerator and then I could hook it up fine. I ran it once empty to clean it, then accumulated two days of dishes and ran it last night. It's so fantastic! A machine washed my dishes for me. A machine washed my dishes FOR me. And it cleaned them better than I do! Really awesome.
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